True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
-
-
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
CLARENCE DARROW -
You can only be free if I am free.
CLARENCE DARROW -
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
CLARENCE DARROW -
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
CLARENCE DARROW -
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROW -
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
CLARENCE DARROW -
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW